Biography - Trollope, Joanna (1943-): An article from: ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 10 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Next of Kin
Amazon.com Review: Fans of Joanna Trollope's cozy, plot-driven novels like Marrying the Mistress and Other People's Children might find Next of Kin slightly forbidding. Set on a farm in the English Midlands, the book opens with a funeral. The deceased, [... more]
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Men and the Girls
One of Trollope's best: I have read nearly all Joanna Trollope's books and this book is one of her best. The story was complex without exaggeration. I especially enjoyed the intergenerational weave of relationships. Almost 5 stars: I love Joanna [... more]
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A Village Affair
Passions run high amidst rural idyll-: A Village Affair takes advantage of all the skilful expertise of its author in unraveling a tale of repressed sexuality , passion and rejection set in a the quintessential English village. Alice, the mother of 3 [... more]
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Brother and Sister: A Novel
"The abandoned baby lives inside each adoptee.": In this tension-filled domestic drama, Joanna Trollope shows how the adoption of two children, now adults, have affected all the families involved--the birth mothers and their later families, the [... more]
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Legacy of Love
Great historical drama: "Charlotte". In the 1840's, a bored Charlotte Brent marries military officer Hugh Connell to escape the ennui of Victorian England. They journey to Afghanistan where she falls in love with the philandering but dashing [... more]
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Friday Nights: A Novel
A quiet but solidly satisfying tale: Eleanor lived her life as a professional working for Britain's National Health Service. Upon retirement, she finds herself a bored elderly person with a cane and no real interests or relationships. Gazing out her [... more]
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Second Honeymoon: A Novel
Trollope at her worst: Trollope usually excels at showing multiple points of view and making most of them sympathetic, and I'm pretty sure that was her goal in this book as well. She failed. The male characters are almost uniformly selfish and [... more]
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Second Honeymoon (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)
Trollope at her worst: Trollope usually excels at showing multiple points of view and making most of them sympathetic, and I'm pretty sure that was her goal in this book as well. She failed. The male characters are almost uniformly selfish and [... more]
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Other People's Children
You Only Hurt the Ones You Love...: Sometimes it's hard to review Joanna Trollope's books for fear of putting off a potential reader. Such is the case with "Other People's Children," which is a brilliant look at what step- families are really [... more]
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The Brass Dolphin
Enjoyable WW II romance: For the past three years, Lila Cunningham has dreamed of leaving her small village to live in London. However, almost twenty-one, Lila realizes her hopes seem out of reach due to her Pa's bungling that has left the family near [... more]
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The Brass Dolphin
Enjoyable WW II romance: For the past three years, Lila Cunningham has dreamed of leaving her small village to live in London. However, almost twenty-one, Lila realizes her hopes seem out of reach due to her Pa's bungling that has left the family near [... more]
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